fucking exactly
"Ronnie might look harder to you than Dorian in the same way that Dorian looks harder to me than Ronnie"
this defeats your argument, nice one. if there is no way to objectify it, its fucking pointless.
No, it is not pointless because bodybuilding is a subjective and not objective sport. "Looking harder" is a perfectly valid argument. Judges don't sit there looking for a scale to determine who is harder, and then count how many points each bodybuilder marks on it; they just look at it and know.
i can see who has better seperation, who has more mass, who is more cut, who has more detail ,proportion and symmetry. fucking hardness is not a objective on its own and is usless.
First of all, while it's true that you can see who has more separations and striations by looking at the bodybuilders, I have never seen judges stepping onstage and counting which bodybuilder has more of it and then giving him conditioning based on that. Secondly, most things in bodybuilding are subjective. Fro instance, both Nasser and Wheeler have won pro shows, despite radically different shapes. Who's to say who's best? Dorian looked harder because his muscles looked subjectively harder to most people who've seen pics of Dorian and Ronnie,. and that's good enough.
dorians lower back appears harder because it is seperated, ripped and striated like crazy.
Wrong. Dorian's lower back appears more shredded because it is separated and striated, in the same way that Ronnie looks more shredded in his arms than Dorian. Being defined and hard are two different things. You can be ripped and still look soft, and you can be hard and be less ripped. Branch Warren is an example of a bodybuilder who is very hard but never had the incredible muscle separations of a Flex Wheeler or Ronnie Coleman.

his legs are not even close to as hard, neither are his arms or delts.
They were not as ripped as Ronnie's, but they were granite hard
simple fact. ronnies arms at this years show where ripped, and bone fucking dry with crazy seperation in the biceps(not as good as before) but then his back was a smooth as a baby, with no seperation, cuts, striations.
Ronnie's arms had more cuts than Dorian, but they did not look harder
but if we put pics of dorian and ronnie together and said who is more conditioned the overwhelming majority would say ronnie, as they already have. ND is so desperate now he is changing thread titles. lol
Actually, this is what McGough had to say about Dorian's conditoning:
"No man has ever been as hard and dry as the man who won six Sandows." 
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